Applying adversarial auto-encoder for estimating human walking gait abnormality index

This paper proposes an approach that estimates a human walking gait abnormality index using an adversarial auto-encoder (AAE), i.e., a combination of auto-encoder and generative adversarial network (GAN). Since most GAN-based models have been employed as data generators, our work introduces another...

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Published inPattern analysis and applications : PAA Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 1597 - 1608
Main Authors Nguyen, Trong-Nguyen, Meunier, Jean
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Springer London 01.11.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Coders
Computer Science
Cylinders
Gait
Histograms
Industrial and Commercial Application
Pattern Recognition
Three dimensional models
Walking
Kinect
Adversarial
Point cloud
Gait
Auto-encoder
Depth camera
Mirror
Posture
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Summary:This paper proposes an approach that estimates a human walking gait abnormality index using an adversarial auto-encoder (AAE), i.e., a combination of auto-encoder and generative adversarial network (GAN). Since most GAN-based models have been employed as data generators, our work introduces another perspective of their application. This method directly works on a sequence of 3D point clouds representing the walking postures of a subject. By fitting a cylinder onto each point cloud and feeding cylindrical histograms to an appropriate AAE, our system is able to provide different measures that may be used as gait abnormality indices. The combinations of such quantities are also investigated to obtain improved indicators. The ability of our method is demonstrated by experimenting on a large dataset of nearly 100 thousands point clouds, and the results outperform related approaches that employ different input data types.
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ISSN:1433-7541
1433-755X
DOI:10.1007/s10044-019-00790-7